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amazondoc
at Fri Sep 24 11:55:20 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by amazondoc ]
>>The part that didn't make sense to me, was that it happened in a no-substrate setup. The eggs should not have been able to absorb too much, they weren't in direct contact with any moisture at all. Only what they could get from the humidity in the air, and that shouldn't cause a problem even at 100%. It would have made sense if they were on wet vermiculite or something that was just too damp, but they weren't.
I've never incubated a snake egg, but I *have* incubated a lot of bird eggs. With birds, at least, it is entirely possible for them to absorb too much moisture from the air, or conversely they fail to lose enough moisture from the egg. In fact, they sometimes drown in the egg if the surrounding humidity is too high during incubation. So if birds are affected by environmental humidity, I would assume that snakes could be as well.
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RE: tough eggs - amazondoc, Fri Sep 24 11:55:20 2010